Shelby Cobra MK

Shelby Cobra MK

Revell
1:24

Made by Matic Kapš

I decided to build street version of Cobra, therefore I scratched chrom bumpers, new exhausts, springs, shocks, steering mechanism, fixed the structure of chassis (it was too short). I also improved interior (seats, door panels, flocking, new carpets), added few parts to the engine and made wireing. New side vents were made, windshield frame was thinned and it's angle was lowered. Side glasses were replaced with new, much thinner. I also scratched new wipers and added air vents to two tone wheels.


http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_s9.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_s6.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_s1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_s7.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_brisalci.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/primerjava_stekelc1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/primerjava_stekelc0.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/konec_m1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/konec_m2.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_p1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_s13.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_s11.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_z2.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_z1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_z3.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_z5.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/koncana_s6.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/gume7.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/krom_detajli1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/krom_detajli3.jpg

Nicer looking than some of the 1:1 street Cobras I've seen.

Excellent Cobra!

i follow the wip and oyu did a great job!

Just something i would add is some black color in the interior of the exhaust because it looks very clean

That paint is absolutely gorgeous.

Awesome work.

Excellent work. Metallic black is a difficult color to get to look good, and you've done a wonderful job. I really enjoyed watching your WIP of this build!

Alsolutly great job on this Cobra

The whitewalls look great

Perfect :thumbsup:

Here is another Intermezzo you could have used :evillol:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vVQ9lh1-3B8/Tb1Q748cdxI/AAAAAAAABTA/NE7GjqLmLxg/s1600/78-Hot-Girl-Hot-Gun-Hot-Car_thumb.jpg

Perfecto!!

That is outstanding. Excellent attention to detail everywhere and the paint looks flawless.

Awesome job!
Andy

The stance is perfect, the wing windows look fabulous, the paint is like a mirror, and the whitelines on the tires are super clean! The only minor thing that catches my attention is the headlight bezels which seem too thick from the kit? In the reference photos they seem slimmer. Maybe it's just the angle, anyway... great work!

WOW! Very nice Matic, certainly captured my attention.

this build is absolutely superb, the paint, the wheel fits very well together

After the model was already "finished" I found out some imperfections (with your help - thanks!) and decided to improve them.


I put a drop of black in the exhaust pipes. Before/after:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/crn_izpuh1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/crn_izpuh2.jpg


Then it was time to build new roll-bar. Revell's wasn't properly shaped at all. Every first picture shows Revell's part, every second shows mine, scrathed one.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar1A.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar1B.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar2A.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar2B.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar3A.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar3B.jpg


Intermezzo:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/protokol20.jpg


Painted using Alclad II chrome. It looks much darker in pictures, but there's actually only minor difference when you look at it in real.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar4.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar5.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar6.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/rollbar7.jpg


To make interior more interesting and a bit more colourfull, I made two rock'n'roll CD's and a Classic car magazine.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/revija.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/revija-notr.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/revija-notr2.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p210/matic176/Cobra/CD-notr.jpg



I hope you enjoyed reading this thread and found it useful (especially WIP).

Thanks for all comments!

Model is finished.

Made are very good! Very beautiful finished product!

I like the CDs and the magazine.

Good roll bar reference picture.

Nice details!

The darker exhaust looks very real, and the roll bar its a lot better than the revell one.

One question about the magazines...do you print them by yourself? what size are those magazines?

Thanks and great work!

Thanks!:)

...One question about the magazines...do you print them by yourself? what size are those magazines?

Yes, I am printing them by myself, using regular paper and ordinary low-budget HP deskjet printer. Actually nothing special at all. First I measured real magazine (scale 1:1) and made a photo of it. Then I converted all measurments into 1:24 scale and printed photo in that size, using IrfanView software program, which allows you to set the final size of printed area. Later all redundant paper was cut off. I glued some more pages into it, to make it fuller.

Size of 1:24 magazine is 12.5 x 9.6mm.

Thanks Matic, i asked you about the size because i did some magazines and i wanted to check if i was in the right size, and looking at you cobra i realized that those magazines you did look awesome.